STONY BROOK, NY – Your heart sings every time you step out of the car in the parking lot at St. George’s Golf & Country Club on Long Island. Whatever weight you carry with you lifts, and your cares dissolve as you behold the White Tree stately standing beside the clubhouse next to the tall American flagpole where Old Glory gallantly streams in the...
We interrupt this sports website for a rock’n’roll update: It’s a bittersweet day for me today as my dear friends and awesome clients Bowling for Soup closed their farewell to the U.K. tour last night. It’s been a great run for me with them – 12 long, wonderful, fun-filled years. Sadly, I never saw a U.K. show – the place where...
SOUTHAMPTON, NY – It was exactly 100 years ago that iconic golf writer Bernard Darwin first saw sunset over National Golf Links of America. “It is with a perceptible thrill that one catches one’s first glimpse of the course….It was my good fortune to arrive at the course at just the hour when the spirit of romance most palpably brooded over it...
Bev Norwood, the man who made Arnold Palmer, has passed. Every golf writer in America is in mourning. We’ll have more on this story later, but for today, we’re going to go dark in honor of his memory.
[Editor’s Note: While Jay is in Cabo San Lucas working on more of the Caribbean/Mexico/U.S. Offshore series of articles and finishing the Casa de Campo work, here’s a re-run of the Phish New Years Eve golf gag article that ran at Back 9 Network. Jay will be back soon with more live work, so stay tuned. Until then, enjoy one of the most entertaining golf...
MARCY, NY – The restoration of Crestwood G.C. proceeds apace, even in the face of the Biblical floods which have devastated the region and indeed the entire eastern seaboard. As you recall from this article from last year, Crestwood was rescued two years ago from the scrap heap by PGA Head Professional Steve Nacewicz and family. The course had not only...
Here’s my Masters preview for Cybergolf. I’ll have updates here all week, as well as two more long pieces for Cybergolf, so Happy Masters everyone:) From the preview: “Now, after Woods raced out to three early wins in 2013, the media, desperate for more casual eyeballs, are proclaiming him “back” with a paroxysm of hagiographic hero...
Woods doesn’t grow golf…he only grows the watching of golf on TV – that’s the premise of Marino Parascenzo’s excellent Cybergolf article this month. Fabulous job – especially now when everyone is jumping in Tiger’s lap and making little cooing sounds in his ear, just begging him to come back and make everything the way it was...
And while the shepherds lay in their field an angel of The Lord appeared to them and they were afraid. But he said “fear not for I bring you glad tidings of great joy. For today in the city of David a savior is born and he will save you from all your sins.” Then, suddenly the sky was filled with a great light and host of heavenly angels appeared and sang...
Though five weeks have passed since Hurricane Sandy, for some neighborhoods it might as well have been only yesterday. “It was the second 100-year event in the last two years,” said Governor Andrew Cuomo, and he was right. One-hundred and eleven homes in Queens burned to the ground; whole neighborhoods flooded by 30-foot swells; transportation around the...
They are like doctors with a patient, priests with a penitent; the PGA Head professionals devote their lives to golf and golfers far from the cameras, lights, and microphones, but they are the beating heart of the game nonetheless. Christmas is a little brighter in upstate New York this year as they celebrate the golf world’s rejoinder to the Miracle on 34th...
Today will mark my 8th anniversary (or 8th birthday, I can’t decide which) as a sports writer. What a ride! From a blog and a dream to the media tent at the U.S. Open! From a few on-line musings to 1.2 million readers and rising! From reading all the great writers to getting calls from them at midnight. Well as my friends Rafi and J-net (and Britt!) would say:...
I talked a buddy out of playing Bethpage Red last weekend and he thanked me for it afterwards. Instead, we went to Tallgrass, which is an excellent alternative to Bethpage Black and the Knoll Club West Course. Together, they are the A-B-C, 1-2-3 of N-Y-C public golf. PGA Head Professional Phil Tita told me the course was in phenomenal condition and he was absolutely...
NEW YORK, NY – I’m here with Jay Flemma – Jaybar! – who is working on releasing ten old Seapods shows on Archive under the old “Jay’s Plays” series he used to do back in the mid-’90s. We always loved those recordings, and now these new Archive shows should be terrific because everyone will have access to them. 1st SET...
Something completely different from sports today… Back in the mid-90s, while tapers were all still using DAT, I branched out and made a couple recordable discs for jam band legends Ominous Seapods. These were merely a couple live shows and a mix disc, strictly internal among the band and band family. We called them “Jay’s Plays” and they were...